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# Staff Product Designer, DeFi at Mysten Labs

- **Company:** Mysten Labs
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mystenlabs/b83dab9a-e925-4628-aaca-4caa122d4d73

## Job description

Mysten Labs’ mission is to advance the internet through step-function improvements in what technology makes possible. We build foundational infrastructure and products that give people, businesses, and developers new ways to interact, transact, and create value. Our work spans on-chain finance and the emerging agent economy. Through Sui, Move, and our broader technology stack, we’re building the systems that make these experiences possible - from secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure to new ways for businesses and AI agents to interact. Mysten Labs is looking for a Staff Product Designer to set the experience strategy for the DeepBook financial stack and the first-party products built around it, spanning spot trading, margin, prediction markets, liquidity, and the workflows that connect users and builders to onchain finance on Sui. This role requires strong product judgment, exceptional design craft, people leadership, and real fluency in financial markets and DeFi. You will work with product and engineering from strategy through launch, build a design team that can cover a growing product surface, and stay close enough to the work to lead critical product flows yourself. The right person knows how to make complex financial systems clear without removing the information users need to assess risk. You should be comfortable designing for retail and professional users, working through technical and regulatory constraints, and using research and product data to improve adoption, execution quality, retention, and trust.

## What You Will Do

- Set the design vision, principles, and priorities in partnership with product, engineering, and business leadership.
- Own the end-to-end experience across DeepBook spot, margin, prediction products, liquidity workflows, and related first-party applications.
- Lead the design of core journeys including onboarding, funding, market discovery, order entry, transaction review and signing, portfolio and position management, collateral, liquidation risk, settlement, and recovery from failed states.
- Design for distinct audiences such as retail traders, experienced DeFi users, market makers, liquidity providers, institutions, and developers without creating a fragmented product experience.
- Remain hands-on in the highest-priority work by framing problems, developing concepts, prototyping, testing, and reviewing implementation quality.
- Build a scalable design system and shared interaction patterns for dense financial data, charts, tables, order entry, account states, alerts, and risk communication.
- Establish a practical research program using interviews, usability studies, product analytics, support feedback, and market observation.
- Partner with engineering to understand protocol behavior, transaction states, latency, data dependencies, security boundaries, and platform constraints.
- Work with legal, security, marketing, business development, and ecosystem teams to launch products responsibly and communicate financial concepts accurately.
- Define design and product quality measures, then connect the team's work to activation, conversion, trading success, retention, support burden, and user trust.

## What You Will Have

- 10 or more years of product design experience, including meaningful experience leading, hiring, and developing designers in a fast-moving product organization.
- A portfolio that shows both exceptional individual craft and leadership impact across complex, data-dense products.
- Experience designing trading, investing, fintech, payments, crypto, marketplace, or other high-stakes products where users make consequential decisions.
- Fluency in DeFi and direct experience using onchain products. You can discuss swaps, order books, liquidity, routing, slippage, collateral, leverage, liquidation, settlement, smart-contract risk, and transaction signing.
- Strong product judgment and a record of shaping strategy, prioritization, and product decisions with product and engineering partners.
- Skill in interaction design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping, research, and systems thinking.
- Experience building design systems and operating practices that improve consistency and delivery across multiple products.
- Comfort working through ambiguity and making progress while product, technical, market, and legal inputs continue to change.

## Nice to Have

- Experience leading design for an exchange, order book, derivatives or margin product, prediction market, wallet, aggregator, or institutional trading platform.
- Experience with both retail and professional trading experiences, including charts, market data, portfolio analytics, and execution workflows.
- Familiarity with Sui, Move, programmable transaction blocks, DeepBook, Slush, or object-based blockchain architectures.
- Experience designing products in legally complex or regulated financial categories.
- Prior experience as a founder, design executive, principal designer, trader, DeFi power user, or ecosystem operator.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, which may include verification of employment history, education credentials, criminal history, and other relevant information.

Regarding the recent rash of technology job scams: Be aware that emails from genuine Mysten Labs group recruiters will always come from the @[mystenlabs.com](http://mystenlabs.com) domain or related subdomains (e.g., [mystenlabs.com/careers](http://mystenlabs.com/careers)). Remember: you can always verify positions on our job boards at [www.mystenlabs.com/careers](http://www.mystenlabs.com/careers).

To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may use technology-assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluate candidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers.

Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. Here at Mysten Labs, you’ll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring the next billion users to web3. We raised a $300M Series B round from top Silicon Valley led venture funds like Jump Crypto, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Binance Labs, Redpoint, Lightspeed, Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Standard Crypto, NFX, Slow Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Samsung Next, Lux Capital, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of web3!

## About Mysten Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mysten Labs builds foundational infrastructure for a decentralized internet, including the Sui blockchain, Move programming language, and related protocols.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: United States (remote-first with offices in Greece, Switzerland, UK, South Korea, Japan, and more)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Evan Cheng (Co-Founder & CEO), Sam Blackshear (Co-Founder & CTO), Adeniyi Abiodun (Co-Founder & CPO), Kostas Chalkias (Co-Founder & Chief Cryptographer), George Danezis (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain / Decentralized Web Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Builders, web3 enthusiasts, enterprises, and developers of decentralized applications (B2B, B2D)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To lay the foundations for a decentralized web stack suitable for mass adoption" – unlocking everything that web3 enables.

## Products & Services
- **[Sui](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: A high-performance Layer-1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed for global adoption, delivering the benefits of web3 with the ease of web2. (Infrastructure / Blockchain)
- **[Move](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: The native programming language for Sui, focused on safety, composability, and extensibility for building smart contracts. (Programming Language)
- **[Walrus](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: A decentralized storage and data availability protocol. (Storage / Protocol)
- **[DeepBook](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: An efficient DeFi foundation that unlocks financial innovation on Sui. (DeFi / Order Book)
- **[Seal](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: Robust encryption & onchain access control for sensitive data. (Security / Privacy)
- **[Enoki](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: infrastructure for seamless customer experiences (mentioned in context of transforming business with meaningful customer experiences). (Developer Tools / UX)
- **[Kiosk](https://mystenlabs.com/)**: A decentralized system for commerce applications on Sui. (Commerce)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – **$336 million** (as of September 2022 Series B; includes $300M Series B, $36M Series A, and ~$11K venture round).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (led Series A), FTX Ventures, and 19 investors in Series B; also partnered with Qualco and xMoney (strategic alliance, May 2026). Sui processed over $1 trillion in stablecoin volume as of May 2026.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+20.8% year-over-year** (167 employees); operates in 25 countries; acquired Parasol (March 2025); Appointed ex-Goldman Digital Assets leader (May 2025); active hiring across 12+ open positions as of mid-2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Core Differentiators**: 
  - The **Move programming language** (originally developed at Facebook for Diem/Libra) offers superior safety and composability for smart contracts.
  - **Sui’s parallel execution** enables high throughput and low latency, aiming to onboard billions of users.
  - A **comprehensive product stack** (Sui, Walrus, DeepBook, Seal, Enoki, Kiosk) provides end-to-end infrastructure for web3.
  - **Scientific and engineering rigor** – the founding team includes veterans from distributed systems, cryptography, and compiler/VM research.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Achieving mass adoption of web3 through scalable, secure, and user-friendly infrastructure. Key initiatives include zero-fee stablecoins, gaming integrations, and data privacy (Seal mainnet launched September 2025). Building the “agentic web” and interoperability foundations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Everybody carries the box” – a collaborative, no-silo environment focused on step-change advancements. Values include transparency, integrity, and thinking big.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: **Remote-first** company with a global team; offers co-working opportunities, team offsites, and company-wide gatherings to stay connected.
- **Interview Process**: Starts with phone interviews (45 min) covering background and interest; followed by virtual team interviews (four 45-min sessions) customized by role (systems design, coding, behavioral). Expect fast feedback (within 1 week).
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but emphasis on “talent shouldn’t be limited by geographic location” and a stellar team of veteran innovators.

## Sources
1. [mystenlabs.com](https://www.mystenlabs.com/)
2. [mystenlabs.com/careers](https://www.mystenlabs.com/careers)
3. [mystenlabs.com/about](https://www.mystenlabs.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/mysten-labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mysten-labs)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/mystenlabs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mystenlabs)

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